state immunity

state immunity
the general principle that one state does not impose civil or criminal liability on another. Thus the head of state or former head of state of a country is normally free from prosecution in another country. However, where a crime is internationally recognised as such and is one which at the time did not fall within the function of a head of state, there may be no immunity: R. V. Bow Street Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No. 3) [1999] TLR 222.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.

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